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Regardless of what it's currently like, supporting fewer things is going to make it easier to maintain.

If Gnome cared about an easy to maintain codebase it would be radically different. Gnome's complexity is comparable to a large web browser (which is kind of insane considering how little it really does.)

To be completely fair to Gnome, they're doing some stuff that nobody else is doing. The idea of building an entire desktop off the backs of C and the gobject system is very novel and gives Gnome a lot of advantages. For example, it had binding for just about every language under the sun. Compare that to KDE and Qt, which is C++ or bust.

Obviously it's a bit hacky and kind of a mess, but it is technically interesting.

I don't know how things are done in the GTK-land, but Qt definitely has bindings for Python, Go, and others. Maybe GObject has some other advantages, but I don't know.

Kind of, but those binding are incomplete and not all modules are supported.

When I say GTK has bindings for every language, I do literally mean every language. It's the nice thing about choosing C as the language to make your entire API in.

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